19 Facts About Vietnamese language

Vietnamese is an Austroasiatic language originating from Vietnam where it is the national and official language.

Vietnamese language is spoken natively by over 70 million people, several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined.

Early linguistic work some 150 years ago classified Vietnamese as belonging to the Mon–Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family .

Vietnamese language belongs to the Northern clusters of the Vietic branch, spoken by the Vietic peoples.

The Vietnamese language was first recorded in the Thap Mieu Temple Inscription, dating from early 13th century AD.

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Vietnamese language is heavily influenced by its location in the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area, with the result that it has acquired or converged toward characteristics such as isolating morphology and phonemically distinctive tones, through processes of tonogenesis.

The ancestor of the Vietnamese language is usually believed to have been originally based in the area of the Red River Delta in what is northern Vietnam.

Old Vietnamese language used Chinese characters phonetically where each word, monosyllabic in Modern Vietnamese language, is written with two Chinese characters or in a composite character made of two different characters.

Vietnamese language is increasingly being taught in schools and institutions outside of Vietnam, a large part which is contributed by its large diaspora.

Since the 1980s, Vietnamese language schools have been established for youth in many Vietnamese-speaking communities around the world, notably in the United States.

Consonants that occur in Vietnamese language are listed below in the Vietnamese language orthography with the phonetic pronunciation to the right.

Each Vietnamese language syllable is pronounced with one of six inherent tones, centered on the main vowel or group of vowels.

Romanization of Vietnamese language was codified in the 17th century by the Avignonese Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes, based on works of earlier Portuguese missionaries, particularly Francisco de Pina, Gaspar do Amaral and Antonio Barbosa.

Vietnamese language written with the alphabet became required for all public documents in 1910 by issue of a decree by the French Resident Superieur of the protectorate of Tonkin.

Where ASCII must be used, Vietnamese language letters are often typed using the VIQR convention, though this is largely unnecessary with the increasing ubiquity of Unicode.

Traditional Vietnamese language however assigns other names to some months; these names are mostly used in the lunar calendar and in poetry.

Vietnamese language prefer writing numbers with a comma as the decimal separator in lieu of dots, and either spaces or dots to group the digits.

Vietnamese language has traditionally been divided into three dialect regions: North, Central, and South.

Basic form of word play in Vietnamese language involves disyllabic words in which the last syllable forms the first syllable of the next word in the chain.